Am I crazy for considering this IKEA hack?
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4 years agoYou’ve got 66” to play with, for 120” ceilings.
IKEA has glass doors for the 15”H cabinet doors. In 30” width flip up. Which is much more useful. But limiting your kitchen to just 30” wide cabinets on the lowers is very very hard design wise.
40”+15”=55”
10” of a built up molding would be slightly tall, but with 120” ceilings, it’s not completely out of proportion. You’d have to use something besides IKEA moldings anyway, so you might as well build the crown that you want, and the top layer profile is what you use for room crown, all the way around.
To get a paint match, you have SW put a cabinet door sample in their spectrograph. Have them select a “rough surface”, and it will take 3 different measurements and average them for the resultant custom color. You get a better match anyway. All of your crown buildup gets prepainted before you install. Then you just need to touch up after install. Which can be a bear if you haven’t done a lot of molding applications.
That's a huge amount of work. And the using only 30”W wall cabinets is going to be so very limiting. Just as only using 15”, 18”, 24”, 30”, and 36” would be if you used the 20”H doors to hack. You might do a preliminary layout to see how many compromises you have to make to use a limited size line. See if you can make any of the sizes work first.
I would personally suggest looking for an assembled line with more versatility, so that there is less work for you. I have used Kraftmaid Basics or Woodstar and that’s been close to Ikea in price. Similar specs in that it’s furniture board with limited sizes. It does have more sizes than IKEA. And it’s assembled. Which helps.
This is Woodstar.
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Or contact a local custom maker. See what they would charge to get you exactly what you want, with them being responsible for all of the measurements and install. Don’t underestimate the huge value that brings to a long and stressful build. Especially as you get towards the end, and you’re worn out.megs1030
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